NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

CHAPTER 1188

HOUSE BILL 1562

AN ACT TO PERMIT THE LIMITED OPERATION OF THE GAME OF BINGO IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. It is lawful for charitable, civic, fraternal, religious, and veterans' organizations which have been in continuous existence for one year in this State to operate the game of bingo in Cumberland County.

Sec. 2. The gross proceeds obtained from the operation of the game of bingo, except for prize money, must go into the treasury of the organization operating the game of bingo. No organization shall pay salaries or commissions to persons operating bingo games.

Sec. 3. An organization may operate the game of bingo only one day per week for a maximum period of six hours on that day.

Sec. 4. The highest prize which an organization may offer on each day that it operates the game of bingo is five hundred dollars ($500.00).

Sec. 5. Chapter 491 of the 1977 Session Laws is amended in Section 9 by inserting immediately before the word "McDowell" the following: "Edgecombe,".

Sec. 6. Chapter 561 of the 1949 Session Laws is amended in Section 1 by striking the words, "Edgecombe County".

Sec. 7. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of June, 1978.